Yes, it sounds like a hairball to me, too. Rexie does that, throwing up kind of
clear liquid.  Then pretty soon, I'll find a hairball under the table or
somewhere else hard to reach!

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singh related the following on 9/26/2005 11:04 PM:

Does sound like a hairball.  Big purrs, for her tummy, and your
worried mind.

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Purrs and prayers for Brandy to start
feeling better soon.
Lily & her mama
Jazz, RB

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Purrs that it's just a particularly persistent hairball.

Purrs are on the way.

Purring that it is, and nothing worse.

Gordon & the FF

Purrs coming that it is only a hairball - it really sounds like it is.

Hugs,

CatNipped

Purrs for Brandy to feel better soon and for it to be nothing more than
a pesky hairball. Please keep us updated.
Skritches,
KittyLady

Many purrs for Brandy, Baha!
Christine

You might want to get her xrayed. This sounds a lot like the persistent
"cough, hack" thing Pearl has always done, but it isn't hairball
precursor but a cough. Could be asthma or heart.

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Purrs for it to be a hairball (sounds like it) and that it comes up soon.

Jill

Purrs on the way for Brandy.

I tell ya, I've seen some whopper hairballs that about had me running
to the vet, but they threw them up before that point.  Scared the heck
out of me, though!  Here's purring that this is all it is, and that
Brandy will be just fine very shortly.

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Lots and lots of purrs and best wishes for Brandy's problem to be solved
easily and quickly,

We were both wrong: I thought it was a hairball, Louie thought constipation
(bacause a day or so ago she dropped a load that was so dense, it literally
stood on end!) It seems that Brandy has some oral thing going on, and I'm
kicking myself for missing it. Apparently she's got a nasty little gum
abcess. It's far back there, and while I check the kids' gums as best I can,
she fought like hell when I tried to look further back. The vet (Dr. Scott
Newman, Georgetown Animal Clinic, Williamsville NY. If any of you out there
ever move to the Buffalo area, go to these doctors. They are world-class,
and much knowledge and treatment of feline diabetes in recent years has come
from this office. I'd trust them with my own life as well as the cats'.) Now
I know why! So tomorrow we take her to get her teeth cleaned, and get the
nasty stuff drained out. The estimate...at best, $850. At worst, $1150. We
had a CAreCredit account that I thought we had closed, but apparently we had
not gotten our last payment on time because we owe maybe 50 bucks, and I
pray to all the known names of God that if they closed it and put it in
paydown mode, that we can get the thing reopened. Otherwise, we'll have to
play juggle-the-checkbook with the vet (who kindly offered to let us make a
down payment--Lord, how I hate making my Bit sound like a damned car
loan!--and pay off the rest within the month.) Can these be reopened in the
event that the SOB's did close it?

I'm such an a.s, because here I am bitching cash! I want my baby girl
better, damn it. Am I so freaking petty as to worry about pricetags? Do
people with human babies freak out at the pediatrician's office? I'd sooner
pull my own teeth than let my little cubs hurt.

She does have an appetite, and what an appetite! The vet gave us this
prescription can food for dental trouble. We didn't want the other kids to
steal, because they have no sense of propriety whatsoever, so we sequestered
her in the computer room with a dish of water and her litter. And I opened
the can and scooped it all out on a saucer. Brandy didn't even wait for me
to set the food on the floor to jump at it! She put her front paws up on a
box and started wolfing, with the plate still in my hand. She ended up
scarfing it like there was no freakin' tomorrow. I tell you, we could right
away see a difference. It was like Brandy had this look on her face that
said, "Well, it's about time you listened to me, you two-legged yutzes."
When I came home from work tonight, Brandy was there to meet me at the door,
her eyes brighter, her attitude more her usual friendliness. She already has
more energy. She wolfed down more chow tonight, more than we've seen her eat
in days. I think we all feel like a weight's been pulled off.

Of course, this doesn't keep me from worrying about tomorrow, even though we
have some of the finest vets to be found in the area. I am a natural
worrywart and stressbag. I would be like my own mother, anxiously chasing
her kids around to look at their turds after using the can, even when the
kid's in high school. Can you tell I come from Old-Country Poles? We'll put
the car payment on deferment if necessary, so long as my baby girl gets
better; I'll pay the late fees on anything, I don't give a rat's @$$. I want
my kitten better! What can they do, repossess my wedding rings? Screw the
jeweler, this is MY baby, the one who picked me! Because I'll swallow the
rings, and believe me no one will want to grab them a day or two later!

I'll keep y'all posted. In them meantime, keep those purrs a-coming, because
my Brandy's already feeling better.

Blessed be,
Baha